Sentence examples for friendly legislature from inspiring English sources

Though Walker once promised to call the legislature back into special session if the courts ruled against the law to try and modify it, the political dynamics – and Walker's ability to push his agenda through a friendly legislature – have shifted, making it less likely that the legislature will rubber-stamp his improvements.

But now, Walker has a friendly legislature, so grassroots progressives have to work twice as hard.

With a friendly legislature in 1920, he passed much of his agenda into law including an anti-lynching law and a reorganization of state government.

That group and other backers of Eggman's measure are hoping to take advantage of California's increasingly immigrant-friendly Legislature and the state's tilt toward milder drug penalties, including last year's passage of Proposition 47, which reduced drug possession crimes from potential felonies to misdemeanors.

Indeed, while Mr. Mangano was a beneficiary of an anti-incumbent taxpayer revolt, he was something of an insider, with 14 years in the county legislature and friendly relations with union leaders.

While gains by moderates and reformists in Friday's polls were most evident in the capital, Tehran, the sheer scale of the advances there suggests a legislature more friendly to the pragmatist Rouhani has emerged as a distinct possibility.

He will find it hard to get business-friendly reforms through a legislature in which his party has few seats and which rejected his first two choices for prime minister.

The oil industry targeted business-friendly Democrats in the legislature to kill the gasoline-related portion of the bill, sparking a major intra-battle in the final weeks before the vote.

With a Republican-dominated Legislature that is friendly to his agenda, he has established an extensive school accountability system, which relies heavily on student testing.

Viewing this as yet another intolerable obstacle, the industry has put intense pressure on friendly members of the state legislature to adopt a law depriving most local jurisdictions of the right to exclude fracking operations.

On a wild election night in Berlin, voters propelled the youth-friendly Pirate Party into a state legislature for the first time in Germany, while the pro-business Free Democrats were bounced out.